“Just over half (57%) of the Swedish people listen and download music via the Internet.”

“The percentage of file sharing (21%) have never been greater.”

“But the proportion who listen to streaming music using Spotify is even greater.”

“Amongst those aged 16 to 25 years, almost 9 out of 10 (85%) are on Spotify and half (55%) listen daily.”

“The older people buy CDs and pay per song, while the younger subscribe, share files or listen to Spotify.”

“If we compare file-sharers with those who do not share files, we find that there is no difference in how often they buy CDs. However, a larger percentage of file sharers pay to download individual songs than those who do not share files.”

“One in three people (37%) listen to Spotify during a month, which is twice as many as file sharing (18%) and many more than those who buy a CD (9%) or pay per song (4%) during a month.”

In Sweden, Spotify usage is even running ahead of use of community sites, IM, blog reading and game playing.

Where are all these consumers coming from? Well, Spotify got a head start by launching at home in Sweden in 2008. In October 2009, it signed a deal to bundle its service to subscribers of the Telia broadband, TV and phone provider.

By 2009’s end, national music revenue had grown by 10.2 percent jn Sweden, after a more than four-fold streaming income boom pushed streamers’ share of Swedish music revenue from 17 percent to a whopping 46 percent (see our report at the time).

As of November 2011, a whole quarter of Spotify Premium subscribers there were acquired through Telia.

All of this is remarkable. For years through the 2000s, Sweden was basically the world capital of digital piracy, land of The Pirate Bay and many principled objectors to IP legislation.

Now, legislation coupled with a homegrown, easy-to-use music product is showing everyone a way ahead. But the move from ownership to access models makes it more crucial than ever that the economics of this new model stack up for everyone in the value chain.